FMS-PLN - Assessment

Books

A Repair Kit for Grading: Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grades by Ken O’Connor
Fair Isn’t Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom by Rick Wormeli
Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom by Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey
How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students by Susan Brookhart
Rethinking Homework: Best Practices That Support Diverse NeedsR by Cathy Vatterott
Classroom Assessment & Grading That Work by Robert Marzano
Grading Smarter Not Harder: Assessment Strategies That Motivate Kids & Help Them Learn by Myron Dueck
Rethinking Grading: Meaningful Assessment for Standards-Based Learning by Cathy Vatterott
De-Testing & De-Grading Schools: Authentic Alternatives to Accountability & Standardization by Joe Bower & P.L. Thomas
Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School by Starr Sackstein

Articles & Blog Posts

Schooling Beyond Measure (article by Alfie Kohn)
Personalized Assessment (blog post by Dean Shareski)
The Grading System Needs a Rewrite (article by Todd Pettigrew)
The Grading Conversation We Need to Have (blog post by Pernille Ripp)
What To Do About Cheating? (article by C.M. Rubin)
You Should Probably Just Grade Less (blog post by Bud Hunt)
Not Grading is Awful (blog post by Pernille Ripp)
From Degrading to De-Grading (article by Alfie Kohn)
The Case Against Grades (article by Alfie Kohn)
De-Grade Your Classroom & Instead Use Narrative Feedback (blog post by Mark Barnes)
Abolish Grades! (article by Nikhil Goyal)
Abolishing Grading (list of blog posts by Joe Bower)
How to Make Grades About Students Again (blog post by Pernille Ripp)
Ungraded Students (blog post by Hadley Ferguson)
Comments Not Grades: A Practical Story (blog post by Jon David Groff)
The Grading Don'ts That Saved My Classroom (blog post by Kimber Larson)
The Right Way to Do Redos (blog post by Rick Wormeli)
What a Zero Really Says (blog post by Cherra-Lynne Olthof)
Here's What Happens When You Really Give a Zero (blog post by Joe Bower)
Supporting No Zeroes (blog post by Brent Cudly)
Second Chances (blog post by Jeff Fiscina)
My Core Beliefs About Assessment (blog post by John Scammell)
Thoughts on Data-Based Instruction (blog post by Danielle Hartman)
Data-Driven Decision-Making Usually Means "Test Score-Driven Decision-Making" (blog post by J. Robinson)
Working Inside the Black Box: Assessment for Learning in the Classroom (article by Paul Black et. al.)
Test Scores Are Low, Make Them Go Up (blog post by Joe Bower)
What Matters in Our Learning: Student Voice in Assessment & Inquiry (blog post by Chris Wejr)
Dance Lessons for Zombies: Redesigning the Report Card (blog post by Kelly Tenkely)
To Pass or Not To Pass? The End-of-Year Moral Dilemma (blog post by Colette Marie Bennett)
Assessment Confessions & Apologies (blog post by Aaron Akune)
Assessing Creativity (article by Susan Brookhart)
How To Give Good Feedback (blog post by Annie Murphy Paul)
The Secret of Effective Feedback (article by Dylan Willam)
Is It Okay That 5% Don't Get It? (blog post by Pernille Repp)
Students Can Do Hard Things (blog post by Anthony Cody)
Make Homework Meaningful (student blog post by Dominick Recckio)
Equitable, Purposeful Homework (article by Jennifer Orr)
Why We Fight the Homework Fight (article by an English teacher)
Why I Don't Assign Homework (blog post by Dan Meyer)
What's the Deal With Homework? (blog post by Nicholas Provenzano)
Collection of Posts on Assessment (list of blog posts by Larry Ferlazzo)
Wasting Precious Time (blog post by Troy Sinanis)
How Can We Make Assessments Meaningful? (blog post by Heather Wolpert-Gawron)
Homework, Authoritarianism, and Student Choice (blog post by Scott McLeod)
What Exactly Is Understanding? And How Do We Assess It? (article by Terry Heick)
The Power of Teachers' Words (blog post by Debbie Silver)
Adaptive Testing Evolves to Assess Common-Core Skills (article by Michelle Davis)
Pink, Godin, Kohn & Asymptotes (blog post by Joe Bower)
Homework: It Fails Our Students and Undermines American Education (blog post by Mark Barnes)
Why Test Scores Should Never Drive Professional Development (blog post by Joe Bower)
So I Asked My Students Their Thoughts on Standardized Testing (blog post by Pernille Repp)
Sure, Big Data is Great. But So Is Intuition. (article by Steve Lohr)
7 Reasons For Standards-Based Grading (article by Patricia Skriffiny)
Always Formative: Standards-Based Grading Implementation (blog)
Standards-Based Grading Resources (blog)
Assessments: The Collateral Damage of SBG (blog post by Daniel Schneider)
Grading for Learning (blog post by Terie Engelbrecht)
The Use of Standards-Based Grading is Growing (blog post by Wilda Heard)
Why I Dumped SBG (and why you probably shouldn't) (blog post)
Standards Based Report Cards: Wolves in Sheep's Clothing? (blog post by Pernille Repp)